alt Hacker NewsI thought this was going to be a post about learning robotics.
It seems more like a post about hooking up an LLM to a pre-made robotic arm.
While that's interesting, I wouldn't have labeled the post "my robotics crash course."
Unfortunately, I think this is in some sense another example of LLMs substituting for actual learning. While I'm sure the author is learning something about robotics from doing these experiments, I doubt it's as much as he would have gotten from say reading a couple chapters of an introductory robotics for dummies book.
True in the sense of learning fundamentals from the bottom up.
Only partially true in the sense of learning how the system might work and doing problem-directed learning.
Eventually, all the problems you'll encounter getting an arm automated are self-discovered, and if you stick with it, you'll learn all you need eventually.
So this is basically step 0.